psychologists emphasizing individual-level conditions and correlates of cohesion, both in micro-social encounters and at population scales;

sociologists capitalizing on small- and large-scale patterns of social structure and civil society organizations;

political scientists looking at pertinent political processes and cleavages;

linguists specializing in the symbolic and discursive articulation and negotiation of cohesion and civil society;

media and communication scholars analyzing the media infrastructures and technologies that promote or disrupt cohesion;

computer scientists studying multimodal interactions between humans and non-humans in face-to-face and mediated encounters;

philosophers developing integrative conceptual and epistemological frameworks for an inter- and transdisciplinary analysis.